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Choosing the right server settings for Gmail is a somewhat annoying decision to begin with, but an important one nonetheless. Depending on how you want to structure your emails or not, you need to choose a different configuration
The right choice of server settings for Gmail
Whether you simply want to retrieve your emails or whether you want to find an organized mailbox like “at home” from anywhere depends on your server settings in Gmail. To do this, open the settings and then select POP/IMAP forwarding.
- The simplest option is to select the POP3 server. You must select pop.gmail.com as the incoming mail server, the port is 995 and SSL is required.
- With this setting, only the requested mails are retrieved from the Gmail server and copied to your local mailbox in the client. You must first configure in Gmail whether the collected mail is deleted from the Gmail server or a copy is saved there. After collection, the task is completed by POP and local changes, such as deleting an email in the client, do not result in any changes on the Gmail server.
- The other option for selecting the incoming mail server is the IMAP server. To do this, select the address imap.gmail.com, port 993 and also that SSL is required.
- The big difference here is that a copy of your Gmail mailbox is created in the client. Mutual synchronization applies here. This means that emails that you delete directly on your Gmail server, for example, are also deleted in your client and vice versa. With this setting, sorting your emails into folders also works and you can access your already organized mailbox from anywhere from home as usual.
- For the outgoing server there is only the choice of SMTP server. The correct configuration is to select the address smtp.googlemail.com. The port is either 465 for SSL or 587 for TLS/STARTTLS. SSL is also required here
- Your Gmail address is normally used as the user name and the password also corresponds to your normal password for the mailbox.
